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Norway will vote on Monday on the final day of a parliamentary election with the ruling Labour Party narrowly favoured to remain in office.

Norway's Labor Party wins national election, with Jonas Gahr Støre likely to form a new government. ...

Norway election 2025 delivered a clear—though slender—victory for the centre‑left, allowing Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre to remain in office after Monday’s parliamentary vote in Oslo. Governing maths: a narrow red‑green path to 85+ Preliminary results put Labour (Arbeiderpartiet) ahead with around 28.2% of the vote, keeping Støre in the prime minister’s office (statsminister) with backing from Socialist Left (Sosialistisk Venstreparti, SV), Red (Rødt), Green (Miljøpartiet De Grønne, MDG) and Centre (Senterpartiet, Sp) to cross the Storting’s majority threshold of 85 seats. The arithmetic is tight and will require disciplined coordination in the new term.

Alta hospital could become the deciding factor in Norway’s 2025 election, with the single-issue list Pasientfokus potentially holding the balance of power after voting on 8 September 2025. A new national poll points to a dead heat between the left and right blocs, making Irene Ojala’s mandate from Finnmark (Finnmark fylke) pivotal. Polling dead heat puts Pasientfokus in play A fresh TV-based national poll shows the red–green alliance and the centre‑right bloc tied on 84 seats each in the 169‑member Storting (Stortinget), leaving the 85th seat—and the identity of the next…

Nearly 300,000 Norwegians have already voted early ahead of the parliamentary election scheduled for 8 September, according to the Norwegian Directorate of Elections (Valgdirektoratet). The figure represents a larger share of the electorate compared to the same period in 2021. Record increase in advance voting turnout As of 18 August, a total of 291,003 advance and early votes had been registered, equivalent to 7.17% of eligible voters. In comparison, after the same number of days in 2021, 215,346 votes had been cast, representing 5.54% of the electorate. The data suggests a marked increase in voter engagement during the first week of early voting.